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The Shocking Truth About How The Brain ACTUALLY Works | DR. IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Unlock Your Potential #235

The Shocking Truth About How The Brain ACTUALLY Works | DR. IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Unlock Your Potential #235

FromUnlock Your Potential with Jeff Lerner


The Shocking Truth About How The Brain ACTUALLY Works | DR. IAIN MCGILCHRIST | Unlock Your Potential #235

FromUnlock Your Potential with Jeff Lerner

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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Dec 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist, writer, and former scholar at the University of Oxford in England, about the power of the human brain.
Throughout the episode, Dr. McGilchrist and I discuss the truth about how the brain works and how society has affected our brains.
In recent years, society has forced people to mechanically endure life and work, lacking purpose and meaning behind what they do. 
According to Dr. McGilchrist, we have fallen into a rigid, micromanaging atmosphere where new ideas are not celebrated. However, humans weren't designed to live this way. We were designed to be creative and develop new ideas. 
Another point Dr. McGilchrist stresses is that life is inherently risky. We weren't meant to play it safe and embrace certainty. If we continue to live like this, nothing extraordinary will ever happen. We must be willing to take control of our lives and take risks, even if unsure of the outcome.
The last point Dr. McGilchrist touches on is the domination of the left-brained hemisphere. Ideally, the left and right sides of the brain work together in harmony. However, the left brain has taken precedence over the right in recent years, leading to the rigid societal structures in place today.
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? The Matter with Things - https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Things-Brains-Delusions-Unmaking-ebook/dp/B09KY5B3QL 
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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction to Iain McGilchrist
01:20 Isle of Skye
03:51 Why I invited Iain to UYP
13:36 Personal & Work Fulfillment
19:33 Jeff’s 4 P’s
22:02 Trust & Micromanaging
24:24 Experiencing time
27:46 Focus on the process
33:08 About Iain’s books
36:31 Our brain
39:56 Scientific revolution & how we got here
43:15 Response during the pandemic
45:21 Things and their opposites coincide
49:49 Brain hemisphere differences
58:20 Fulfillment
59:24 Questions: Why? How?
01:01:51 Making shifts
01:08:53 Other people’s opinion
Released:
Dec 28, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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If you agree with these statements you will love this show: 1. Humans have extraordinary potential 2. Unlocking our potential is part of our purpose 3. Hard things are worth doing if they make us better I am a former professional jazz musician turned serial Founder & bestselling author/podcaster. This show is my research project into how to unlock our full potential. I interview the best in the world at various disciplines & also share my own lessons learned. When I'm not podcasting or writing I lead multiple 8 and 9 figure cos, raise a family, learn, play music, and try to age backwards.